Chelsea News

Chelsea is a city of 37,000 located across the river from Boston. It is now 62 percent Hispanic , having begun to diversify in the 1970s.

ValuePenguin , a consumer finance website, recently ran the numbers to see which Massachusetts communities are paying the most and the least for auto insurance.

Dana DiSantis is a semi-finalist in this year's Kayem Fenway Frank Contest for her "Monstah" hot dog recipe.

Apollinaire Theatre Company's 11th year of offering free bilingual productions on alternating nights in English and Spanish in Chelsea's Mary O'Malley Park features 2 plays about crossing borders, fear of the Others among us, linguistic slight of hand, and finding one's voice in the chaos.

At about 11 a.m., the Revere, Chelsea and Malden fire departments were called in to a second-floor apartment above the Shipwreck Lounge at 55 Revere Beach Blvd. The fire was started by an electrical accident inside the apartment, according to Revere Deputy Fire Chief Michael Viviano.

A surge of young adult immigrants with limited skills have flooded the Revere schools and surrounding community school districts, challenging the schools' missions and causing them to divert resources from the traditional student population.

We can't go a month without some jerk spitting on a bus driver . The MBTA Transit Police have posted a photo of a man they believe spat on a bus driver on June 11. The latest incident of public transportation expectoration happened on the 110 line, during a stop in Everett.

Bunker Hill Community College Foundation received a $10,000 Workforce Development and Education Grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation on June 24, 2014.

The following is from Congress Building Corp.: Once again, Congress Building Corp. is pleased to serve its repeat client, LCB SeniorLiving, LLC of Norwood, MA in the construction of The Residence at Five Corners, a senior living community in Easton, MA.

Prosecutors will not pursue a criminal case against the driver of a garbage truck that struck and killed a Chelsea cyclist in Charlestown in April, the Suffolk District Attorney's office reported.

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority will be performing work that will require the closure of Ravine Road beginning Monday, July 7th through August 31st.

State Police and the Suffolk County district attorney's office are investigating the death of a Chelsea man who allegedly attacked police while suffering from a possible drug overdose, officials said.

Marialena Montijo received the Christian A. Herter Scholarship at a State House ceremony on May 22, 2014.

Tuesday's decision by the Supreme Judiclal Court ordering that the question of whether Massachusetts can issue licenses for casino gambling must be placed before the voters for a referendum in November is one of seismic proportions, with the epicenter situated right here in the Everett-Chelsea-East Boston-Revere-Winthrop area and its reverberations ... (more)

Tens of thousands of children have come across the border on their own in the past year.

Hundreds of Market Basket workers protested Tuesday against the ouster of the company's CEO and two other top executives.

LOS ANGELES, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Canon and Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry have announced the winning products of the 2014 Medical Design Excellence Awards , the medtech industry's premier design competition.

As forecast weeks ago, the Committee on Election Laws was voting Wednesday on a bill that would require super PACs to publicly disclose the source of their funding.

Several special events, including the Pride Parade and the Bunker Hill Day Parade, will be taking place in the City of Boston this weekend.

Police in a Boston suburb have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with an attack on a woman found severely beaten and partially clothed on a sidewalk.